Radeon HD 4830 512MB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6750, which has GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 720 Stream Processors, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		95 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6750 should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 should be quite a bit (more or less 42%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		18400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7700 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 should be a lot (approximately 26%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (26%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.